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Reflections on start-up life: Week 36

It was a confronting week in a number of different ways. Definitely not quite back on an upward swing yet! Under pinning all this is a personal milestone this week — a switch from money set aside for this venture, to now starting to eat into personal savings. Really in a

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Jasper

Jasper

Jasper

Jasper

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 35

How do you keep going when confronted with cresting the top of a hill to achieve a goal and only to realise that there is another bigger hill in front of you again? The crest this week was pushing out the latest release of Tribalytic. This was the major focus

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 34

This weekend just past is now officially 12 months since Alex and I met at BootUp Camp. That’s us there in the middle — me in the centre and Alex in the green top to the right. This photo was taken at the end of our 2 weeks together. I’

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 33

I’ll say up front that this last week has been one of the toughest. Some of the best highs and the lowest lows to date. It’s perhaps the most challenging post to write as well — I’ve always wanted to keep this an open dialog yet I find

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 32

We closed two more sales this week, one of them three months up front (end of financial year special). Officially we’ve now taken more money through the door this month than we’ve spent. A nice feeling. Now we just need to make enough to start paying ourselves. I

Invasion on a cold Melbourne morning

Invasion on a cold Melbourne morning

Invasion on a cold Melbourne morning

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 31

If there is one lesson to be learned on reflection, it’s that major iterations always introduce bugs. Technically we are 1 week into the next iteration and already 1 week behind because we’ve been resolving the last of the issues in the Victoria release. I never liked Collingwood

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 30

Still waiting for the hockey stick — after signing the first customer the second, third and fourth are still “in the pipeline”. With a new release over the weekend, we have something to go back to a few people now and try close some deals. We pushed the Victoria Park release

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 29

Well, we’ve signed our first customer! While this is a major milestone, to put it into perspective, if he stays with us for 841 years we’ll be millionaires. There is a way to go yet. I’ve been fascinated by the change in perspective this has brought about

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 28

The new beta is still not quite fully operational, still a couple of minor issues that should be resolved today. We are feeling the pain of not having a proper development environment anymore — the challenge (as I’ve said many times in Twitter) is that doing something once is NOT

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 27

Straight up — we didn’t get the next beta out just yet. But it’s close! As I said to Alex, it will get closer and closer until one day it’s just done. That will be real soon. This anticipation is kind of strange in a way. There’s

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 26

Holy crap! 6 months — where did that go? I think this deserves the main focus of this post so I won’t dwell on last week much: * Progress on all fronts: * Next beta of engine is very close * Pipeline is now behaving * Feedback on reports is very positive — we are

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View from our back deck this morning

View from our back deck this morning

View from our back deck this morning

View from our back deck this morning

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 25

The first full week back from San Francisco is done. Boy, what a change of pace! After a hectic time rushing from meeting to meeting, it’s now back to the challenge of coding and trying to re-engage a meeting schedule here back in Australia. The challenge has been switching

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 24

I don’t know if I left my heart in San Francisco, but my inner geek found its spiritual home. In our two and a half weeks we met many amazing people doing many amazing things. The quality of the start-ups, the engineers and the networking is phenomenal. Perhaps the

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Reflections on Start-Up life: Week 23

The time in San Francisco is winding quickly to a close. We now have only four days left to make the most of this particular opportunity. I thought in this post it would be good to summarise what we’ve learnt to date about investor meetings and introductions. I guess